TRANSPORT SAFETY INVESTIGATION REGULATIONS 2003
- REG 2.3 Immediately reportable matters (Act s 3)

All aircraft operations

(1)

For the purposes of the definition of immediately reportable matter in section 3 of the Act, the following investigable matters, in relation to an aircraft operation (other than an aircraft operation mentioned in subregulation 2.1 (2)), are prescribed:

(a)

subject to subregulation (2), the death of, or a serious injury to:

(i)

a person on board the aircraft or in contact with the aircraft or anything attached to the aircraft or anything that has become detached from the aircraft; or

(ii)

a person who has been directly exposed to jet blast;

(b)

the aircraft being missing;

(c)

the aircraft suffering serious damage, or the existence of reasonable grounds for believing that the aircraft has suffered serious damage;

(d)

the aircraft being inaccessible and the existence of reasonable grounds for believing that the aircraft has been seriously damaged;

(e)

breakdown of separation standards, being a failure to maintain a recognised separation standard (vertical, lateral or longitudinal) between aircraft that are being provided with an air traffic service separation service.

Note
This may result from air traffic service, pilot or other actions, and may occur even if only 1 of the aircraft involved is under control of an air traffic service.

(2) For paragraph (1) (a), the death of, or a serious injury to, a person does not include:

(a)

death or serious injury resulting from natural causes (except to a flight crew member); or

(b)

death or serious injury that is intentionally self-inflicted; or

(c)

death or serious injury that is intentionally caused by another person; or

(d)

death or serious injury suffered by a stowaway in a part of the aircraft that is not usually accessible to crew members or passengers after take-off; or

(e)

death occurring more than 30 days after the occurrence that caused the death, unless the death was caused by an injury that required admission to hospital within 30 days after the occurrence.

Air transport operations

(3)

For the purposes of the definition of immediately reportable matter in section 3 of the Act, the following investigable matters, in relation to an air transport operation (other than an aircraft operation mentioned in subregulation 2.1 (2)), are prescribed:

(a)

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(b)

violation of controlled airspace;

(c)

a near-collision involving aircraft manoeuvring on the ground;

(d)

an occurrence in which flight into terrain is narrowly avoided;

(e)

the rejection of a take-off from a closed or occupied runway;

(f)

a take-off from a closed or occupied runway with marginal separation from an obstacle or obstacles;

(g)

a landing on a closed or occupied runway;

(h)

a significant failure to achieve predicted performance during take-off or initial climb;

(i)

a fire (even if subsequently extinguished), smoke, fumes or an explosion on or in any part of the aircraft;

(j)

an uncontained engine failure;

(k)

a mechanical failure resulting in the shutdown of an engine;

(l)

the use of any procedure for overcoming an emergency;

(m)

an event requiring the use of oxygen by a flight crew member;

(n)

malfunction of an aircraft system that seriously affects the operation of the aircraft;

(o)

a flight crew member becoming incapacitated during flight;

(p)

fuel exhaustion;

(q)

the aircraft's supply of useable fuel becoming so low (whether or not as a result of fuel starvation) that the pilot declares an emergency in flight;

(r)

undershooting, over-running or running off the side of a runway during take-off or landing, or any other similar occurrence;

(s)

any of the following occurrences, if the occurrence causes difficulty controlling the aircraft:

(i)

a weather phenomenon;

(ii)

operation outside the aircraft's approved envelope;

(t)

the failure of 2 or more related redundant systems for flight guidance and navigation;

(u)

serious damage to, or destruction of, any property outside the aircraft caused by contact with the aircraft or anything that has become detached from the aircraft.